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Art at the Limits

Opinion: Investing in Arts Education Can Help Students Heal

By Heidi Landis | June 13, 2022

“The arts are a form of embodied play that surpasses verbal processing and allows us to explore, connect with ourselves and others, and ultimately build or rebuild the muscles of imagination when life circumstances or the experience of trauma has taken them away.”

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: NYC’s Human Service Workers Deserve Just Pay in This Year’s Budget

By Myung Lee | June 8, 2022

“The very forces contributing to a worsening housing emergency are also impacting the workers tasked with solving that crisis. Those who work to find permanent and safe apartments for the housing-insecure and homeless should not find themselves at risk of eviction and displacement.”

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City’s Homeless Services Head Hails Moves Out of Subway, But Won’t Say How Many Stay in Shelter

By David Brand | May 23, 2022

More than 700 people staying on trains or at end-of-line stations accepted placement in a temporary shelter in the first two months of Adams’ so-called “Subway Safety Plan,” according to Homeless Services Commissioner Gary Jenkins. But he would not say how many stick around.

City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York

Statewide Gas Ban Bill Axed From NY Budget, Sources Say

By Liz Donovan | April 6, 2022

A call for Gov. Kathy Hochul to push the legislation through in budget negotiations comes as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change announces a new warning about fossil fuels. But sources say the bill will be excluded from the week-late spending plan, forcing lawmakers to hammer it out in the remaining months of the legislative session.

New York State legislature

Expanding Child Care Subsidies Would Lift 84K New Yorkers Out of Poverty, Report Finds

By Jeanmarie Evelly | February 24, 2022

The findings, released by anti-poverty nonprofit Robin Hood and Columbia University’s Center on Poverty & Social Policy, examined the impact of the Early Learning Child Care Act, which would institute a payroll tax to fund child care subsidies for families with children under 3 years old.

Government

Mayor’s Budget Plan Cuts $615M from Homeless Services, as Subway Crackdown Intensifies

By David Brand | February 18, 2022

Service providers have urged the city to hire more workers to help move people more quickly out of shelter or public spaces and into permanent housing.

Albany

How Does New York State Come Up With a Budget? We Asked the Experts

By Ese Olumhense | January 12, 2022

In years past, the governor and leaders of the Senate and Assembly—the proverbial “three men in a room”—worked the tangle of bills and resolutions into a budget, an often opaque process. While the optics are different this time, some budget experts say they don’t expect the process to change dramatically.

Budget

NYC Parks Get a Funding Boost Following Covid-Related Cuts

By Liz Donovan | July 7, 2021

In addition to paying for more than 200 park rangers and patrol officers—positions cut from the previous year’s budget—the allocated money will support community gardens, forestry management and equity initiatives.

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NYC’s New $98.7 Billion Budget Bolsters Rental Subsidy for Homeless Families

By David Brand | July 1, 2021

New York City lawmakers on Wednesday adopted a new $98.7 billion budget that bolsters a key rental subsidy for homeless residents and restores some funding to social service providers following last year’s cuts.

Housing and Homelessness

Next Mayor Could Confront Nine-Digit Deficits at NYCHA

By Jarrett Murphy | April 8, 2021

The housing authority managed to balance its books last year, and an infusion of federal support will help it do so in 2021. But budget gaps of $300 million or more lurk in 2022 and beyond.

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